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Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.

Joseph Pilates

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Joseph Pilates
Age: 83 †
Born: 1883
Born: December 9
Died: 1967
Died: October 9
Coach
Entrepreneur
Gymnast
Inventor
Pilates Trainer
München-Gladbach
Joseph Hubertus Pilates
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Health
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Maintain
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If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.
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It is the mind itself which builds the body.
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The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature
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